Zing Zang Zoom

this past Saturday we heading to the Sommet Center in Nashville to watch Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey's Zing Zang Zoom. I was super excited, maybe more than the kids. Logan was excited to see tigers. We got settled in our seats and watched the pre-show, where you could go down and see tricks and things up close. It was really crowded so we decided just to watch all of it from our seats instead of dragging the kids down into the crowd. The show started and Madison was up out of her seat dancing. She loved every part of it. Logan got bored during some parts but really like the clowns and all the animals. It was a 2 hour show, which was a little long for the kids to sit and me! Logan crashed and fell asleep on my lap towards the end. Over all it was so much fun!

Before we headed out...they were getting excited about going to the circus!(or circles as Logan called it)

Fun and Games

On a Friday night in we decided to try out some games to play with the kids. We played a few rounds of Candy Land. Madison got the game, Logan just wanted to draw cards. Then Madison did some roller skating. We played Hide & Go Seek. The kids are only good at seeking. I'm great at hiding lol. Then we ended our night with making beds on the floor, popping popcorn and watching Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs. It was such a fun night!!

The "big" blizzard of 2010

This just makes me laugh. They were calling for a few inches of snow here. I made the mistake of going to the commissary a few days before the storm was suppose to come. People were freaking out. Stocking up on toilet paper, milk and supplies like the world was about to end! Schools were canceled the night before and I was excited hoping I could take the kids out and play in the snow....and get more use out of the snow stuff I spent $70 on! Well needless to say this is what we woke up to.....

Nightmare trip home

Our leave was over and it was time to pack up all our Christmas presents and bags and head to Tennessee. We loaded the car till there wasn't an inch left and headed out. Maybe a little over an hour into our drive James was complaning about the car shaking. It got worse and worse and then our back tire exploded. We pulled over so James could change the tire. Well it turned out that our jack was bolted down under the back seat. So we had to take out Logans carseat to get it out. And then to get our spare James had to move everything in the back of our car to the side of the highway to get to the tire. He finally got everything he needed when he couldn't get the tire off. It turns out he needed a screwdriver to take our tire off, which we didn't have! He tried and tried for what seemed like forever. And poor James is was about 14 degrees and now starting to snow really hard. His coat and gloves were packed away somewhere in the bags. Finally a cop car pulls up to our rescue. Then appears a 5 foot 90lb chick. James is trying to get the tire off and she tells him "maybe I can get it" LOL so she tried nothing. She called a wrecker for us. 30 minutes later he came. Unscrewed a few things and then whacked the tire with a sledgehammer. He was nice enough to only charge us $60 and not the full $75 because James did most the work!! How nice! then we were back on the road. Thankfully the kids were so good for us, or it could have just made the trip that much worse.

the kids at McDonalds after we fixed the tire!

Madison fell asleep watching about 8 hours of Scooby Doo

Bowling Night

Grandma and Grandpa offered to watch the kids so James, Kelly, Dusty, Kaitlyn and I could go to dinner and go bowling! It's been so long since I've been bowling. and to think when I was pregnant with Madison we went every weekend. James and I were actually getting really good. Even talked about getting our own balls!!! LOL After we went to dinner at Bdubs...mmmmm....I miss those wings so badly when we're in Tennessee.....we went to the bowling alley. I have to say I think I lost my touch. I was horrible and not to mention my back was killing me. Either way we had a lot of fun, till we got the text from Mom that Logan had been throwing up, so that ended our night a little early.

me and Kaitlyn

me during cosmic bowling...I was the only one
who lit up!

Kelly

Me!

Christmas Morning is here!!!!!

Christmas morning was finally here!! My favorite holiday of all. I still get just as excited as I did when I was a kid. Besides Mom and Dad I think I was the first one up lol. It was a great morning filled with a lot of great gifts and fun with the family. Here are a few pictures of our morning.

A look down on all the presents!

Santa "Dusty" comes for a visit

After we went to the Christmas Eve program at church we headed back to Grandmas for a special surprise. Mom had gotten the old Santa suit at church and volunteered Dusty to be Santa for all the grandkids. It was one of the funniest things. Of course Madison was all about him and was so excited. Logan wasn't sure. But everyone got a turn sitting on "santas" lap. Logan kept telling Santa that he wanted a tractor for Christmas. Even Kelly got a turn on Santas lap, where he asked her if she wanted him to bring her a boyfriend this year!! Dusty was a great Santa and had every cracking up. I think this will be a tradition we will have to do every year!

The kids before we headed to the Christmas play

All the cousins waiting for Santa to come!

She was so excited to see Santa....she talked about him forever and still does. The next morning she was upset and I asked her what was wrong, it was Christmas morning she had all these presents and she was crying! She told me she was sad. I asked her why and she told me that she wanted to see Santa and he wasn't here, he was gone! Poor girl!!

Logan telling Santa he wants a tractor

Santa asking Kelly if she wanted a boyfriend

this year for Christmas!

Fun in the Snow!

On our trip back to Ohio we were lucky enough to get some snow to play in. I think everyday Madison would wake up and look out the window to see if it was snowing. One day the news was showing a snow storm in another state and she ran to the window and got really upset when it wasn't snowing. Finally Madison got her wish and we got snow! Of course I had to go and buy all the snow stuff since the kids didn't have anything....annoying! But we went out and played (Even me and I HATE playing in the snow!) The kids ran around, made snowballs, played football, wrestled with James and built a snowman. They had a blast. Every day though our snowman kept getting smaller and smaller and they would be upset when they saw this!